currency

Localization in ASP.net - Keep Curency as $ instead of €

<%#String.Format("{0:c}", Eval("Subtotal"))%> I am doing that but if the language is Spanish, this is being displayed 475,00 € The client wants it so that it is actually $ 475.00 possible? ...

What is the best data type to use for money in c#?

What is the best data type to use for money in c#? ...

How to check if a Java character is a currency symbol

I have to perform a check on a character variable to see whether or not it is a currency symbol. I have discovered the Character.UnicodeBlock.CURRENCY_SYMBOLS constant however I am unsure of how to use this to determine whether or not the character is in that block. If anyone has done this before help would be much appreciated. Thanks ...

VB.net Decimal.toString() for any Region

I have an app that deals with currency. For display purposes I use the nifty VB FormatCurrency function which will format based on the OS's region setting. So, if in France you might get 123,45 where in the US you would get 123.45. To perform calculation on these amounts I use CDec() to convert to decimal. My problem is that when I c...

Java: Currency to Locale Mapping Possible?

I have a value stored in a DB correlating to a monetary amount, say 10.0. I also have access to the Currency/CurrencyCode. How can I use NumberFormat/DecimalFormat/(other?) to format when I don't know the Locale? According to the docs it will pick a default locale which won't work with a foreign Currency. ...

PowerBuilder: international currency formatting

Background Users in the US were our application's initial user base, but this has expanded to the point that Canadian, British, and Scandinavian users also use the system. The PowerBuilder datawindow didn't like the Scandinavian currency format with decimals and periods transposed (###.###,00). When we tried to set the format in the d...

Currency format string in asp.net

Hi, I am using an infragistics webgrid and need to format a currency string. For this I need a string containing a pattern such as "$ ### ###,00" and I would like this to come out of my current CultureInfo. How can I do this? Do I need to compose it manually from the info in: CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(myLanguageId).NumberFormat...

Removing trailing decimals from a .ToString("c") formatted number

Basically I am formatting numbers like so price.ToString("c") The result is $615.00 in english and 615,00 $ in french. My desired result, however, is $615 and 615 $, respectively. How can I attain this, while still taking advantage of .nets localization handling? ...

Django Form values without HTML escape.

Hi, I need to set the Django forms.ChoiceField to display the currency symbols. Since django forms escape all the HTML ASCII characters, I can't get the &#36; ( ) or the &pound; ( ) to display the currency symbol. <select id="id_currency" name="currency"> <option value="&amp;#36;">&#36;</option> <option value="&amp;pound;">&...

Storing Currency Symbols in a Database Table

We are using firebird as our database. How do we go about storing currency symbols in the database. Which character set should we use or what is generally best practice? For example storing "$" or "¥" appears straight forward but more complex symbols do not appear correctly in the database table, i.e. "₡" will not store in the database....

Best Practice - Format Multiple Currencies

What is best practice for the scenario listed below? We have an application which we would like to support multiple currencies. The software will respect the users locale and regional settings to dictate the correct number format, i.e. $10,000.00 or 10.000,00₴ etc. We would however like to be able to format different numbers based upon...

What is the best layer to use to format Currency numbers?

I use Javascript on frontend, C# as middle layer and Oracle 9i as DB. What is the best practice when formatting numbers with 2 decimal precision into a currency? And what layers should be preferred amongst any of these three layers? Keeping in mind that the User will be able to edit these amounts on a few of my screens on the applicati...

Proper currency format when not displaying the native currency of a culture

What is the proper way to format currency if you are formatting a currency that is not the native currency of the current culture? For example, if I am formatting US Dollars for a fr-FR culture do I format it like a en-US culture ($1,000.00) or as an fr-FR culture but changing the Euro symbol to a US Dollar symbol (1 000,00 $). Perhaps ...

Localize Currency for iPhone

I would like my iPhone app to allow the input, display and storage of currency amounts using the appropriate symbol ($, €, ₤, ¥, etc) for the user. Would NSNumberFormatter do everything I need? What happens when a user switches their locale and these amounts (dollars, yen, etc.) are stored as NSDecimalNumbers. I assume, to be safe, it'...

Currency Mask

I need to create a currency mask. I did lines of command and it's works fine, but when i set the value in textfield, occurred infinit loop. I monitoring the textfield with Editing Changed behavior, to catch each caracter that the user set, but when i try to change the text value, the infinity loop happens. :( Somebody have a simple code...

How do I override Currency symbols in Java?

I'm trying to print prices in Turkish Liras (ISO 4217 currency code TRY) with Java. When I do Currency curr = Currency.getInstance("TRY"); Locale trLocale = new Locale("tr", "TR"); System.out.println(curr.getSymbol(trLocale)); the output is: "YTL". However, the currency symbol for Turkish Lira has recently changed from "YTL" to "TL"...

currency xml feeds with lots of currencys

Hello I am seeking for xml feed with lots of currency's it should be free and with daily updates if somebody know one, pleas share info I have googled all day for this ...

What are good ways in which to specify custom currency, number and datetime formats in GWT?

I have a GWT project in which I need to manually specify currency, number and datetime formats. These customizations include specifying the currency symbols, grouping seperator, decimal seperator, negative number formats etc. What would be the best way to accomplish this? Should I use the GWT NumberFormat class? NumberFormat makes exten...

How to parse a currency Amount (US or EU) to float value in Java

In Europe decimals are separated with ',' and we use optional '.' to separate thousands. I allow currency values with: US-style 123,456.78 notation European-style 123.456,78 notation I use the next regular expression (from RegexBuddy library) to validate the input. I allow optional two-digits fractions and optional thousands sepa...

Get the numerical value of an SPFieldCurrency field

I am using SPFieldCurrency column in one of my lists. My custom code receives a string value as a parameter, which contains the field's value as returned by the GetFormattedValue() method. Now my problem is that the value received by my method contain currency symbols in them, Eg, 10$, 10¥, 10€ etc. Because of the presence of the curr...